By Lauren Fix, The Car Coach The government is offering free money for electric vehicle owners. But how ‘free’ is it? The federal government has been telling Americans that they can earn $7,500 on a new tax credit. The deal comes from the recently enacted The Inflation Reduction Act, where the legislation generated a tax […]
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The Yoke’s On You: Drive-by-Wire Steering
• November 15, 2022 • 0 Comments • connected cars, Electric Vehicle, Eric Peters, SPEED LIMIT, Technology
Do you like the idea of there being no physical connection between your steering wheel and the driving wheels? There’s already no physical connection between the gas pedal and throttle in most new cars. When you depress the gas pedal, the degree of depression is registered by sensors, which send data to the computer that controls […]
Will Gas Stations Survive the Evolution Towards Electric Vehicles? NMA E-Newsletter #722
We still need gas stations as long as we drive internal combustion engines (ICE). That’s obviously a given. According to Kelley Blue Book, though, automakers sold 576,000 EVs in the last nine months–a whopping 70-percent increase during the previous year. If we continue buying electric vehicles (EVs) at this pace, we will need electric […]
Funding for Road Infrastructure–Never Seems to be Enough: NMA E-Newsletter #721
November 7, 2022 • 0 Comments • Congestion Pricing, Electric Vehicle, Fuel Tax, Gas Tax, Highway Trust Fund, Infrastructure, infrastructure funding, LEGISLATION, mileage-based user fee, NMA, Road User Charge, VMT, VMT Tax, WHEEL TAX
Out of the many transportation problems America currently faces, funding infrastructure remains at the top of the pile. Currently, we pay at the pump both a national and state gas tax and in many local counties and cities around the country, we also pay special sales taxes and wheel taxes for infrastructure. It never seems […]
California Looks to Cripple Supply Chains and Economy by Banning Diesel
October 9, 2022 • 0 Comments • Auto Industry, CALIFORNIA, CARB, diesel ban, Electric Vehicle, vehicle emissions
By Lauren Fix, The Car Coach California Governor Gavin Newsom recently stated, “It’s a ‘Moral Obligation’ for California to ban diesel-powered trucks to rectify ‘Decades of Racist’ practices.” How does that make any sense? It doesn’t! The California Air Resources Board (CARB) is considering new regulations to ban the sale of all diesel semi-trucks by […]
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